The aim of the paper is to present general understanding incorporation and compare contrast it in English Lithuanian. Generally incorporated constructions are understood as which a verb one its arguments form particularly tight unit. Incorporation typical many Siberian North American language families. Although Lithuanian do not belong them, some types can be identified their grammatical struct...

Contrastive reasoning is the reasoning with contrasts which are expressed as contrary conjunctions like the word ”but” in natural language. Contrastive answers are more informative for reasoning with inconsistent ontologies, as compared with the usual simple Boolean answer, i.e., either ”yes” or ”no”. In this paper, we propose a method of computing contrastive answers from inconsistent ontologi...

The present research investigates what drives the prosodic marking of contrastive information. For example, a typically-developing speaker of a Germanic language like Dutch generally refers to a pink car as a “PINK car” (accented words in capitals) when a previously mentioned car was red. The main question addressed in this chapter is whether contrastive intonation is produced with respect to t...